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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Question from Kate - Music recommendations

Hi everyone. I absolutely love everything that has to do with Henry the VIII and the Tudor Dynasty. I've looked around and tried to find music from that era but have not come across anything. I was wondering if anyone knew of any Tudor court music available.Thank you.

5 comments:

You might want to look for "All Goodly Sports - The Complete Music of Henry VIII" if you're looking for his music in particular. I bought mine online since most of the music stores in my area have very little in the way of early music.

Here is my list of recommendations, all of which I own (having accumulated them over the course of my schooling/BA/MA/Dip/Cert/PhD research). I have attempted to keep to the more academically 'popularist' composers/works to give an overview of the musical period.

Beware that some discs happen to contain later composers (eg. William Byrd born circa 1540, who probably wasn't even old enough to be a chorister at the time of Henry's death!) and that the consort selection is also intended to help with an understanding of the Tudor musical education and in the case of the In Nomine disc, show the birth and musical legacy of a form which would continue to thrive well into the C17th. I have also tried to vary the recording artists to give you an idea of the different types of “historically informed performance practice” sounds available...